For the first time, Sakuma Zuo Matthew naturally thought of the Northwest Army, the Japanese Continental Army was fully mobilized, and he knew the news that he would go to Shandong to fight a decisive battle with the Northwest Army, and at that time the War Department was also preparing to mobilize half of the division of the Taiwan Army to increase the number of troops, but Sakuma Zuo Matthew refused, he was promoted to a general in 1898, the old qualification of the absolute old qualifications, even if it was an order from the War Department, he could also return it, and the reason for rejecting the War Department was very simple, Taiwan was not yet equal, in fact, the current Taiwan, All the things that should be leveled were leveled, and he had the ambition to completely wipe out Taiwan, so he chose this, but he didn't expect that it was really crooked, and he didn't know how, he actually lost a wing.

In their opinion, the northwest does not have the conditions and ability to land, and besides, it is really the northwest that has come over, and those counties near the coastal areas of Fujian are not attacked, but they are fighting Nantou, a place full of mountains and wilderness, which makes no sense.

In the eyes of the Japanese Army, the northwest does not have the ability to land in Taiwan, in fact, after the battle of Shandong, they were also warned, and they also made a certain defense, but they were all mere formalities, they did not know at all, the northwest had secretly sent a team of several hundred people and dozens of tons of supplies to Taiwan together.

The other side also has a good reason, the battle of Nantou and the battle of Wuzhuang, there is no direct battle report, but through estimation, the time is roughly known, but the battle of the Inoue United Team Headquarters. But it's a real fight, and you don't even know where your opponent is. was shot coldly like this, what kind of person has such combat effectiveness. There are not many people in the whole of Asia who have such combat effectiveness, but the northwest is one of them, and it still has a direct contradiction with Japan, and now that war has been declared, he has the most reason to attack Taiwan.

I don't understand, both sides are quite reasonable, and no one can convince anyone, but one thing is confirmed. The other side's personnel don't look back too much. The whole meeting was discussed, and there was no result, but when Hanazawa Zheng came back, including the high-level leaders above the captain of the Taiwan Military Wing, they all gathered in the conference room of the Governor's Palace, and Hanazawa Zheng knew very well what Sakuma Zuo Matthew was going to do, and this time he went to Taichung, not only visited most of the officers and some survivors, but basically restored most of the process of this battle.

When Hanazawa is finished telling. Everyone didn't speak for a long time, until a long time, someone interrupted the calm of the conference room and said, "It can't be a rabble!" "Lieutenant Governor. Matsudaira Wu Ze, who is also Taiwan's chief civil affairs officer, said loudly that he is a civil affairs official, but he was born in the army. The other officers made the same decision.

"That said. It is a regular army, and the closest to the vicinity of Nantou is Wufeng. The Lin family there has been very restless lately, could it be the revolutionary party. ”

"It's not a revolutionary party, Luo Fuxing's status in the revolutionary party is far above Lin Zumi, and his support disappeared after our protest, which is also the fundamental reason why Luo Fuxing's uprising was huge two years ago, and now, there is almost no influence!"

"Then will it be the Northwest?" Sakuma Zomathew once again raised the Northwest Road.

At this moment, even the most resolute one who had refuted before didn't dare to say it with certainty, and after glancing around, Sakuma Zuo Matthew looked at the subordinates around him, and said indignantly: "It can only be them, because their strength is limited, they can only come up with a small force, this is probably the largest of the misfortunes, and they can't be allowed to develop, otherwise, our Taiwan will be completely chaotic." ”

Sakuma's words were recognized by everyone Most of the officers felt that this might be a small group of elite troops from the northwest, which almost told the real reason, the northwest attacked the Japanese fleet in Shandong, causing almost most of the navy's combined fleet to sink, plus the three divisions of the army were besieged, the northwest is the biggest enemy for Japan, even the Taiwan army also feels the same way.

"I don't care what happens to the War Department, but Taiwan can't be lost!" Sakuma Zuo Matthew has already set the main tone, and next, they are discussing how to deal with the Northwest Army, they don't know, although the judgment is correct, but the data they know is greatly reduced, they regard the attack on the Northwest Army Special Forces of the Inoue Wing as the whole of the Northwest Army.

Even if there is such a deviation, but Sakuma Zuo Matthew still entangled a large number of high-level officers, and formulated a plan to deal with this matter, no matter what, since the Northwest Army came over and mixed with the Wufeng Army, it will definitely become a big problem, if you are not careful, in case it is developed by the other party, then the problem will be much bigger.

In the end, after 2 hours of negotiations, the final result came out, the Taiwan army was fully dispatched, 5 companies, 19,000 people, plus tens of thousands of military police and 20,000 second-line troops, which is almost under the control of Sakuma Zuo Matthew, all the armed forces, after being sent, even near the Governor's Mansion in Taipei, there are only two small guards and some armed expatriates.

The total number of personnel and soldiers of the Taiwan army is as high as 50,000, such a huge number, in the history of Japan's control of Taiwan, it is definitely the first time, tens of thousands of troops, against opponents who may be dozens of people, at most more than 100 people, this is simply a knife to kill, but this decision has been passed by everyone, no matter how proud of themselves the Japanese army is, they will not think that they can do a good job with a company, in case one is not good, like the Inoue company, they will be defeated by the other party, It is even possible to lose your life.

The only pity is that based on the incompleteness of the intelligence system and the Japanese control over Taiwan, the Wufeng Army does not know this, if it knows, not to mention Taiwan, the northwest will send a fleet directly from Qingdao to attack Taipei, occupy Taipei, an important port, and lay a good foundation for the liberation of Taiwan.

Later, when the dust settled, looking through the battle plans of both sides, I found such an important opportunity, but that was not mentioned later.

Japan has done a good job of pressing all the troops and going all out to deal with the Wufeng Army, and even the entire Taiwan Army has been mobilized, but Liu Ye knows very well that after annihilating almost one wing, the cumulative annihilation of more than 3,000 enemies, no occupier will ignore this, not to mention the murderous Japanese, it is conceivable that the Japanese will inevitably retaliate, and the degree of retaliation will be very tragic.

Not only will it involve the place where the fog peak is located, but it will even endanger the ordinary people, which can be clearly seen from Luo Fuxing's uprising, when the Japanese can't catch the rebel army, they often pour out their anger on the ordinary people, maybe at the beginning, because there is no annihilation of the Luo Fu Star Department, it will be slightly restricted, but in the gradual decline of the Luo Fu Star Department, when there is not much strength, these Japanese troops show their fangs, in the 2 years of the uprising time, there are large and small massacres recorded in history, There have been more than 30 massacres, the most recent of the four most recent ones, with the lowest number of massacres at around 1,000 and the largest at more than 3,200.

Whether it was the point raised by the Northwest Army before coming, or the bloody lesson of Taiwan, before the battle against Nantou, Liu Ye had already been mentally prepared for this, and the temporary stronghold before was in the mountains, but not in the depths of the central mountain range. From before the start of the war, Liu Ye ordered to find a more suitable base, and the requirement was of course that the location should be larger, because there would definitely be a lot of people in the past, the mountains were high and the forests were dense, at least, if you entered from outside the mountain, it would not be possible to enter soon, artillery, machine guns and the like, it was difficult to get in, and third, of course, it was easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Such a place, in the mountainous area in the middle, there must be, take Yushan as an example, stretching for hundreds of kilometers, similar valleys of deep mountains and old forests are definitely there, even in the history of later generations, after Japan occupied Taiwan for decades, the aborigines still did not clean up, deep in the mountains and old forests, and even hundreds of tribes, what bothered them was not the area of the land, but the food.

Is the Wufeng Army short of food now, under the situation that the entire Nantou is evacuated, even if the personnel of the entire Wufeng District enter the deep mountains, the food is enough for about 100,000 people to eat for more than half a year, as for half a year, not to mention that there are places where you can grow food in the mountainous areas, let's just say that there is really a shortage of food, go down the mountain to grab it, whether it is a reconnaissance company, or special forces, small-scale operations and operations behind enemy lines are what they are best at, the most poor, and the support of the mainland, Liu Ye and them are not alone, Behind him, is the whole Northwest.

By the way, Lin Long and they are also tasked with persuading the people to migrate to the mountains and forests together, near Wufeng, there are more than 30 large and small villages, these villages are as few as dozens of households, more than 100 people, more than 300 households, thousands of people, more than 30 villages, at least more than 30,000 people, some of these people have a close relationship with the Lin family, and some have a far relationship with the Lin family, and the difficulty of convincing them is not ordinary.

They are all their own compatriots, and in the future, they will become the foundation of the future in Taiwan, not only soldiers, but also grassroots workers, and cannot be slaughtered by the Japanese in vain, the blood of the Chinese has been shed too much, and it should not continue to flow.

But even Liu Ye didn't expect that the Japanese would react so big and so fast, from the time the news of the Inoue Wing came out, to the Japanese sending troops, including the few days when they went to Taichung to confirm the situation of the Inoue Wing, it took a total of 8 days for the Japanese to send troops, more than 50,000 troops, directly pressed over Taichung, and went straight to the fog peak. (To be continued......)